I had been working in the lab for a few months, just getting into my own project and making progress. It was March and I had applied to the SURP program at the School of Medicine, with plans to spend the Summer in Pittsburgh and continue my research. Then, the talk about COVID suddenly intensified…
Author: Sriram Amirneni
My Brackenridge
Participating in the Brackenridge Fellowship this Summer has definitely changed my understanding of research, especially multidisciplinary research. Being a part of the fellowship has exposed me to unique research projects being conducted by my peers in many different fields. The multidisciplinary nature of our cohorts and the fellowship meeting topics has made me realize how…
Brackenridge: Communicating My Research
One of the most important aspects of research is being able to communicate it effectively to the target audience. This may be other researchers, policy makers, or even the general public. As researchers, we are immersed in our work and have a deep understanding of the context and significance of our results, but to people…
Brackenridge: My Cohort
Last Summer, I was a part of SURP through the School of Medicine. All of my fellow researchers were in the health sciences, so we spoke a common language. However, there was great diversity between our projects and research methods, and it was still difficult to understand the intricacies of everyone’s research. The Brackenridge Fellowship…
Brackenridge Introduction: Sriram Amirneni
Hello! My name is Sriram and I’m a rising senior majoring in molecular biology and sociology and minoring in chemistry and neuroscience. This summer, I will be conducting research in the Soto-Gutierrez lab through the Brackenridge Fellowship! My research is focused on modeling a pediatric liver disease using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This disease…
CURF: A Semester of Growth
My time in the lab this semester has led to me developing greatly as a scientist. If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that not every experiment leads to the results you were hoping to see, and that is ok. I have been met with inconclusive results after hours of hard work, which is always…
CURF: Becoming a Researcher
In high school, I gained some research experience through the research focused courses I took, as well as my experience spending a summer working in a bacterial biofilm research lab. I knew I wanted to continue growing my technical knowledge and skills, so the summer before my freshman year, I spent some time looking through…
CURF Introduction: Modelling Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis in vitro
Hi! I’m Sriram Amirneni, a junior studying molecular biology and sociology. I am honored to be a recipient of the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship and can’t wait to share my research progress this semester. The summer before my freshman year, I read an article about researchers at Pitt. They had created mini livers to study…